Agricultural Engineering specialised in ecology and biodiversity conservation. His research first focused on Mediterranean endemic and threatened flora, exploring plant reproductive processes and their interactions within ecosystems, later expanding to ecological modelling and spatial data analysis.
He has worked in several research centres and protected areas in Spain and Italy, gaining hands-on experience in conservation projects and biodiversity monitoring. From 2015 to 2021, he was a data analyst, GIS developer and consultant at the Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC), contributing to projects on greenhouse gas emissions, land productivity, and environmental indicators. In 2021, he became a Project Officer at the EC-JRC, focusing on analysing extensive data sets to develop indicators related to biodiversity and agriculture. During this time, he also gained experience at the intersection of science and policy.
In 2024, he joined LifeWatch ERIC as a Data Management Specialist, where he is involved in the entire data life cycle for agroecology and soil science projects, including Agroecology, SUS-SOIL, PATH2DEA and AgroServ.
Xavier has co-authored several scientific publications, on ecology, biodiversity conservation, plant biology and ecological modelling, with a strong focus on integrating data-driven approaches. Additionally, he has developed and maintains several R packages for ecological analysis and biodiversity research.
Main publications:
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X2401121X?via%3Dihub
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304380020304191?via%3Dihub
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21010517?via%3Dihub